The mostly animist population in the hills around the capital city Bamako survive without any form of help. The Mali Foundation has been set up to offer these people a better perspective, to decrease the high mortality rate of women and children, to provide basic education, (also for girls), to improve nutrition and to give information on aids, birth control and female circumcision.

In addition to the provision of wheelchairs, solar ovens, medicines, food, and research into bilharzia and anaemia, the Foundation has begun a project offering help to leprosy sufferers, and the malnourished children are given daily multivitamin tablets.

To discourage migration to the cities, the Foundation gives help to local horticultural projects, digs wells, provides motorised grain grinders and builds small dams in the local rivers.

The mostly animist population in the hills around the capital city Bamako survive without any form of help. The Mali Foundation has been set up to offer these people a better perspective, to decrease the high mortality rate of women and children, to provide basic education, (also for girls), to improve nutrition and to give information on aids, birth control and female circumcision.

In addition to the provision of wheelchairs, solar ovens, medicines, food, and research into bilharzia and anaemia, the Foundation has begun a project offering help to leprosy sufferers, and the malnourished children are given daily multivitamin tablets.

To discourage migration to the cities, the Foundation gives help to local horticultural projects, digs wells, provides motorised grain grinders and builds small dams in the local rivers.